Get featured! Email your news to schoolofartnews@cmu.edu with a brief description, link to more information, image, and your degree and class year.
Dec 3, 2025-Jan 12, 2026
Harrison Apple (BHA ’13) was named by Pittsburgh City Paper as one of Pittsburgh’s People of Year 2025.
Anisha Baid (MFA ’24) is exhibiting in “Are You Human” by Khoj in New Delhi opening on January 30.
Tsohil Bhatia (MFA ’20) was awarded the New York State Council on the Arts Support for Artists Grant with support from CUE Art.
John Currin (BFA ’84) is participating in “The Omnipotence of Dreams,” a group show at Gagosian in Gstaad, Switzerland, through January 25.
Eva Lu Damianos (BFA ’57) exhibited a series of watercolor portraits featuring the healthcare workers who cared for her during her recovery from a broken leg at the senior living community Longwood at Oakmont, where she and her husband have lived since 2017.
Magali Duzant (BHA ’09) showed photographs from their publication A Tree Grows in Queens alongside work by Brigit Naef at Kabinett Visarte Zurich, December 11-13, 2025.
Nkechi Ebubedike (BFA ’06) is showing in “Panorama” at AMG Projects in Lagos, through January 24.
Hank Ehrenfried (BFA ’14) and Seldon Yuan (BHA ’98) are exhibiting in the palladium/Athena inaugural group show “Works on Paper,” closing January 17.
Inbar Hagai (MFA ’24) was spotlighted by Prospect Art an article about her ongoing experimental nonfiction project, Captured Show, following the NEW WORK Grant Hagai was awarded in 2024.
Julie Nash Jenkyn (BFA ’57, MFA ’61) passed away on November 10, 2025.
Dana Lynn Kleinman (BFA ’97) showed new work with Sponder Gallery at Art Miami, December 1-6, 2025.
Laurie Lipton (BFA ’75) is showing a drawing in the group show “Defending Ethical Integrity: the new Degenerate Art” at the Torrance Art Museum, through February 21.
Ricardo Miranda (MFA ’99) is part of a group exhibition “2025 Shared Dialogue, Shared Space,” a culmination of the 2025 Korea Art Forum Artist Fellowship for public art projects, through February 21.
Michael Charles Neumann (MFA ’20) and Lena Chen (MFA ’22) published documentation of a collaborative performance at CMU, Choke, in the journal Performance Research in a special issue “On Breath.” Tsohil Bhatia (MFA ’20) provided documentation support.
Ester Petukhova (BFA ’23) opened a solo exhibition, “At the Foot of the Hill,” hosted at The Peddie School’s Donna Sands & Mariboe Galleries, as part of its “Artist-in-Residence” program series, running January 9-29. Petukhova will be hosting a workshop with students on expanded-image making and how hisitorical cultural archives can serve a site for visual inquiry.
Barbara Rosenthal’s (BFA ‘70) HOW MUCH DOES THE MONKEY COUNT (1988) was screened as part of the evening of “Her Gaze: visionary women artists who perform for their own cameras, redefining the female gaze through self-directed acts of looking and being looked at,” on December 6 at Film-Makers’ Coop in NYC.
Carrie Schneider (BHA ’01) will present a solo show at David Peter Francis, May-June 2026, as well as being featured in “Palomar” at The Renaissance Society in Chicago, May 2 – June 7.
Laurie Shapiro (BFA ‘12) is presenting a new outdoor art installation at the Phish Rivera Maya festival at Moon Palace in Cancun, January 28-31.
Professors Emeriti Susanne Slavick and Andrew Ellis Johnson will exhibit in the group show “Swim in Cold Seas” at Ejecta Projects, in Carlisle, PA, January 24 – March 7.
Ruth Stanford (MFA ’05) is part of the group exhibition “Works on Paper” at The Bakery Atlanta, on view through February 8.
Amy Tenenouser (BFA ’86) is opening the solo exhibition “A Map Won’t Help” at El Barrio’s Artspace in NYC on January 14 and running through February 9.
H. Gene Tourmaline’s (BFA ’12) Innerworkings Theater installed and performed “Astral Gathering” at Truth or Consequences Contemporary in New Mexico on December 13, 2025.
Kat Tsai (BHA ’17) was recognized in Forbes 30 Under 30 List for 2026 as part of the index of visionaries pushing the boundaries of art and style.
Rexy Tseng (BFA ’09) exhibited in “A place never fully held,” presented by KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin, December 6, 2025-January 11, 2026.
Image: Carrie Schneider, Eve II (bloodline), 2025 (detail)